[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#439730: Bug#439730: Bug#439730: Please shut up libibverbs

[Manuel Prinz]

Am Sonntag, den 26.08.2007, 20:27 -0500 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> There's a config option to turn it off. That was discussed on the ompi lists
> a while back.

I think you refer to [1]?

> Another option is to just rebuild and comment that activation out. I did that
> with the 1.1* series... and I though we had this fixed in 1.2.3. I guess we
> haven't ?

Seems so. Of course we could recompile with different options but I'm
not very keen of that because Infiniband is not the only supported
interconnect. There's also Myrinet, Myrinet Express and OpenFabrics.
Some users might have a combination of those, and we would need to ship
a package for every combination, if I'm not mistaken here. And this is a
maintaining nightmare. Since there is a solution for this (configuration
option) I think it's best to document that in README.Debian for now.

If there is a reasonable way to test for support of certain systems, we
could generate a configuration file with unavailable interconnects
disabled during installation. But I can't test this since I use
Ethernet/TCP.

Best regards
Manuel

Footnote:
 1. http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/users/2007/07/3571.php